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1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration
of the telegraph.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th
state in the United States.
1919 - Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in
Oyster Bay, N.Y.
1987 - University of California astronomers first
witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion
stars.
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by
men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.
In 1927 …
President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 119,035,000
Federal spending: $2.86 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.4
Unemployment: 3.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
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The German economy collapses.
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Socialists riot in Vienna; a general strike follows
acquittal of Nazis for political murder.
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Trotsky is expelled from the Russian Communist Party.
● Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo
transatlantic flight.
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Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
are electrocuted at Dedham (Mass.) Prison despite
worldwide protesting over weak evidence (Aug. 23).
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The Holland Tunnel opens (Nov. 13) to connect Manhattan
and Jersey City, N.J., giving cars a route under the
Hudson River and an alternative to ferry boats.
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Popular vaudevillian Al Jolson astounds audiences with
his nightclub act in The Jazz Singer, the first
feature-length talkie.
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Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first
all-electronic television. |
